According to Carers UK, over half of all unpaid carers find it difficult to work.
“Properly funded care and carers rights are essential to the social infrastructure of society similar to child care,” the report continued.
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Earlier this month, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said in his New Year message: “We know our care system is broken: but it doesn’t have to be. We can rise to the challenge of fixing it. That means action from all of us; you, me, families, communities and government.”
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